Saturday in Gdansk, Poland starts the 2011 European Table Tennis Championships.

The Austrian men's team is composed of Werner Schlager, Chen Weixing, Robert Gardos, Daniel Habesohn, and Stefan Fegerl.  They start the team event against Romania, followed by Sunday's clashes against France and Greece.

The winner and the runner-up in each group reach the quarterfinals and thus begin the race for the medals.

Austrian did not field a women's team for the team event, with only national Champion Li Qiangbing (SVS STRÖCK) participating in the individual singles.

Once again the first contender for the men's gold is Germany's exceptional player Timo Boll.  The women's defending champion is from the Netherlands, with major challengers from Germany, Spain, Hungary, and Romania.